Staging

How it is used

Used as a noun ('it works on staging') or before another noun ('staging environment', 'staging server'). Some companies call it pre-prod or UAT. Data in staging is usually fake or anonymized.

Example sentences

1. The release is on staging now. Could you check the payment flow before we go live?

2. Our staging environment uses smaller servers, so don't trust its performance numbers.

Common collocations

• staging environment
• deploy to staging
• staging server
• test on staging

Related terms

• environmentA separate copy of the whole system, with its own servers, settings and data, used for one purpose such as development, testing or serving real users.
• productionThe live environment that real customers use. A problem in production affects users directly, so changes there are made with the most care.
• deployTo put a new version of an application or service onto servers so that it starts running there, for example in a test environment or for real users.
• canary releaseReleasing a new version to a small share of users or servers first, watching its metrics, and only then rolling it out to everyone.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• staging · Software Engineering

More terms: DevOps and CI/CD

• DevOps
• deployment
• pipeline
• CI/CD
• rollback
• build
• continuous integration
• continuous delivery
• artifact
• blue-green deployment
• feature flag
• roll out